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...ause loggerhead shrikes on San Clemente Island are critically endangered, the foxes that prey on their nestlings should be controlled. Right? Wrong. The problem is that the foxes are also at-risk. A new analysis shows that instead of pitting the shrike against the fox, both species could have been protected wit...

...ncovered the first genetic blueprints of organisms critically important in the world's ecological makeup. The genetic blueprints, or genomes, are publicized jointly in the August 13, 2003, online editions of the journals Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A group from Scripps Instit...

...imensional structure. The result, said Kaback, was critically important for understanding how the protein works. "We needed that structure," he said. "Without structure you can't get mechanism, although we had an approximate idea of what it looked like." Kaback said the resulting structure confirmed a surprisin...

...Berman, director of the Protein Data Bank. "It is critically important that these kinds of data are made available quickly to expedite the drug discovery process, especially when we are dealing with a potentially epidemic disease like SARS. The rapid processing possible by the PDB is going to become increasin...

...hat productivity-biodiversity relationships depend critically on the history of community assembly, in particular on the specific sequence of species arrival from a regional pool of colonists." The results argue that community assembly processes must be considered along with resource use, disturbance, and other...

...hat productivity-biodiversity relationships depend critically on the history of community assembly, in particular on the specific sequence of species arrival from a regional pool of colonists." The results argue that community assembly processes must be considered along with resource use, disturbance, and other...

...nd other groups. "It is clear that dugongs are now critically endangered here, and certainly Tanzania's rarest large mammal," said Dr. Tim Davenport, WCS conservation biologist and a co-author of the recent report, which has found that these rare mammals have been eliminated from all but two locations in Tanzan...

...hor of the studies. "When the systems break down, critically short telomeres can lose function, destabilizing the chromosomes and, we are finding, lead to cancer." Direct evidence of telomere shortening and telomere length heterogeneity in human intraepithelial neoplasia (IEN) The objective of this ...

...ted at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center on six critically ill patients already in intensive care units whose hearts had stopped, and who had failed to respond to standard CPR for at least a half-hour. Toward the end of this period, an additional 15 minutes of standard CPR was performed with blood pressure...

...perm production could prevent the erosion of these critically important genes. "These papers and these findings show that while there is a slow process of degradation, there has been a concurrent gain on the Y in genes that allow for spermatogenesis," said Robert Waterston, now a scientist at the University of...

...onte, Brazil, June 12, 2003--A newly described and critically endangered pygmy-owl species discovered in Brazil ...e, enough evidence exists to rank the pygmy-owl as critically endangered according to the World Conservation (IUCN) Red List guidelines." In addition, the Atlant...

...quately for management purposes. Lastly, in a few critically important reserves where there is need to know actual tiger numbers, the use of advanced techniques such as remote "camera-traps," and measuring prey densities is essential, the paper argues. The Wildlife Conservation Society is working to save tiger...

...pecies at highest risk and includes endangered and critically endangered tortoises and freshwater turtles, based.../SSC Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA). "Many of the critically endangered species are at great risk of going extinct within the next 20 years--unless we take immed...

...e unique to the area and that over 100 species are critically threatened, endangered, or vulnerable according to the criteria of the World Conservation Union. The report also ranks sites according to ratings for biodiversity, endemism and threatened species, including existing parks such as Virunga and Kahuzi-...

... human pathogens, Fraser says. This information is critically important in the search for new antibiotics and vaccines to combat infections diseases. E. faecalis lives in the gastrointestinal tracts of humans and animals and is often found in soil, sewage, water and food as a result of fecal contamination. Whil...

...ould reduce market demand and reduce the impact on critically endangered leatherbacks," says Crowder. Since saving leatherbacks also may require reductions in the overall quantity of fishing effort, scientists suggest that transitional aid should be allocated to fishermen and coastal communities as we try to mo...

...arles (Saint Mary's University) have assembled ten critically important research articles on MPAs. The articles are by leading economists and ecologists such as Lee Anderson, Rognvaldur Hannesson, Daniel Pauly and Callum Roberts. A wide range of approaches are used to assess the benefits and costs of running MP...

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